9-11-01 will always be remember by us as the day the WTC fell but some other interesting things happen on the same date.
Here's the list and link
http://www.historymania.com/american...y/September_11
1226 - The Catholic practice of Perpetual adoration begins.
1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge - Scots of William Wallace defeat
English.
1541 - Santiago, Chile destroyed by indigenous tribes.
1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia;
beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos
1683 - Christian Army under the command of the King of Poland defeats
an invading Muslim Army attempting to take Vienna.
1709 - Battle of Malplaquet - Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria
defeat France.
1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in
the War of the Spanish Succession.
1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to
stop nascent American Revolution.
1777 - Battle of Brandywine
1786 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first Secretary of the
Treasury.
1814 - The Battle of Plattsburgh.
1847 - Stephen Foster's most memorable song, Oh! Susanna, is first
performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1857 - The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes
massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after
which the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
1911 - Middle Tennessee State University was founded in Mufreesboro,
Tennesseee
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent
there.
1918 - The Boston Red Sox won the World Series; they would do so again
on October 27, 2004 after 86 years.
1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
1921 - Fatty Arbuckle arrested for rape.
1922 - British Mandate of Palestine begins.
1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor
papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1926 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura , Polish Challenge 1932
winners, killed in a plane crash as their RWD 6 crashed in the ground
during a storm.
1940 - George Stibitz pioneered the first remote operation of a
computer.
1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 - World War II: US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohien
1943 - World War II: start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk
and Lida by the Nazis
1944 - World War II: the first allied troops of the US Army cross the
western border of Nazi Germany
1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in
Vietnam.
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins regular service.
1973 - A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet
topple elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. The CIA had
attempted to oust Allende for 3 years before this.
1981 - The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO.
1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's
record which stood for over 60 years.
1987 - 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 - CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted
for a tennis match, marches off the set, leaving affiliates with six
minutes of an empty news desk.
1987 - Reggae musician Peter Tosh is murdered in his own home in
Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica.
1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and
Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and
West Germany.
1990 - Céline Dion releases her first English-language album, Unison.
1990 - President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised
speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers
from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricane in United
States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawai'i,
especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.
1997 - Scotland votes to re-establish its own Parliament on the 700th
anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, after 290 years of union
with England.
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S.
Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable
offenses.
2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in
Melbourne, Australia.
2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New
York City and part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and down a
passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.
2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being fatally
wounded on September 10.
2004 - Petros VII, the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch of Alexandria and
his company were killed in an unexplained helicopter crash outside
Mount Athos, Greece